From Hell To Breakfast Mini-Review With Mini-Recipe: Tom Waits' "Bad Like Me"

Late for work: this will have to be quick.  Seems I'm always rushing these days.

NPR's got a first listen up of Tom Waits' "Bad Like Me."

I've only gotten a few minutes' listening in so far.  That's what the commute is for.

But, like all Tom Waits songs, what I've heard is the sound of a man aching in the arms of a difficult universe.

It's on my Amazon list because Tom Waits' music gets into your bones.

Which, when you're making good lamb-broth, you should break.  The marrow flavors it, and provides a strong nutritious flavor.

A Look Back: Christianity, Satire, and Irony in America in the 1980's

Really, so long as there is a “Christian” subculture, Christian moralizing will always be incredibly thin. To fence oneself off from a culture is to give up the right to speak to it. You have to see clearly what you’re talking about, not as an outsider, but as a citizen, committed to its well-being.

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Reflections On Tom Waits

You have a lot in common with Tom Waits.  You wake up in the morning and try your hardest to be yourself.

Tom Waits wakes up in the morning and also tries to be yourself.

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